Author: Binaj Gurubacharya
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Last surviving member of the first team to conquer Mount Everest says it is crowded and dirty now
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The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest says the world’s highest peak is too crowded and too dirty and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected
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‘Our gods were locked in the basement.’ Now Nepal is pursuing sacred items once smuggled abroad
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An unknown number of sacred statues of Hindu deities were stolen and smuggled abroad in the past
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Plane carrying 71 people crashes, catches fire in Kathmandu
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save KATHMANDU, Nepal — A plane carrying 71 people from Bangladesh swerved erratically and flew dangerously low before crashing and erupting in flames as it landed Monday in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, killing at least 50 people,…
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Famed Swiss climber killed near Mount Everest in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A Swiss climber acclaimed for his rapid ascents — including scaling dozens of peaks in the Alps in a little more than two months — was killed Sunday in a mountaineering accident near Mount Everest in Nepal, expedition organizers said. Ueli Steck was killed at Camp 1 of Mount Nuptse, Mingma Sherpa…
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Nepal’s most popular Buddhist nun is a musical rock star
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KATHMANDU, Nepal – There is one Buddhist nun everyone in this country knows by name – not because she’s a religious icon and a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, nor for her work running a girl’s school and a hospital for kidney patients. Ani Choying Drolma is famous as one of Nepal’s bigger pop stars. With more…
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Women reach the top in Nepal’s trekking industry
POKHARA, Nepal – When Lucky, Dicky and Nicky Chettri tried to break into Nepal’s male-dominated trekking industry 20 years ago, competitors tried to run them out of business. They say men threatened them, harassed them – even filed bogus police reports against them. “The men said this is a business for the men and we…
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Nepal will try to ease congestion on Mount Everest
KATMANDU, Nepal – Nepal plans to minimize the congestion of climbers near the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest, which gets clogged with scores of climbers during the short window of good weather, officials said recently. One of the initiatives includes the introduction of separate fixed ropes for climbers ascending and descending near the summit to…
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No more Everest, says oldest to climb highest peak
KATMANDU, Nepal – The oldest person to climb Mount Everest said Sunday that he won’t make any further attempts to scale the world’s highest peak – even though his new record might soon be in jeopardy. “I think three times is enough,” Yuichiro Miura, who reached the top of Everest at the age of 80…
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US extreme skier Glen Plake among avalanche survivors
KATMANDU, Nepal — Renowned American extreme skier Glen Plake, one of the survivors of the weekend Himalayan avalanche that killed at least eight people, said Wednesday he feels lucky to be alive but heartbroken that he could not save two friends who remain missing. Plake is a champion hot-dog skier who has appeared in many…
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Nepal avalanche hit climbers as they were sleeping
KATMANDU, Nepal — Mountaineers who survived a pre-dawn avalanche high on the world’s eighth-tallest peak say they waited an hour for sunlight, and then saw pieces of tents and bodies of victims strewn around them on the snow. Veteran Italian climber Silvio Mondinelli said he and a fellow mountaineer were asleep when they heard a…